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Improve your canal fishing

Our canal fishing expert Simon Mottram (aka Motty) shares his hints and tips in this video series to help you improve your skills.

Simon Mottram

Simon 'Motty' Mottram started fishing on his local canal at the age of seven. Since then he's become a canal fishing champion and regular National championship medal-winner, having competed for more than 30 years.

He is a qualified Level 2 angling coach and trains our Let's Fish! coaches in the finer arts of how to teach canal fishing.

In this video series, Simon shares some of his best tips to help you improve your own canal fishing. Use the links in the side/section menu to choose the topics you're interested in, or work your way through from beginning to end.

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Last Edited: 17 August 2023

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